Rocks, Riches, Rust
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Room with a view: A promotional photo during the building of the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York, circa 1930
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The Lean Brain Series
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“Knowledge worker’s ‘machinery’—their brains—can be capricious, rendering thought processes less than reliable, and actions less than rational.”
While heading to a session at the most recent Lean Transformation Summit, I found myself confronted with signage that posed the following open-ended question: “All problem solvers must....”
Conquering the Challenges of Technological Growth and Success
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Tesla Model 3: Scaling operations to meet mass production demands without compromising product quality will be challenging.
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Scientists Bring Visual ‘Magic’ to Light
(Lawrence Berkeley National Lab: Berkeley, CA) -- A butterfly’s wings and a peacock’s feathers use nanoscale architecture to bend light and produce brilliant colors without pigments or dyes, and scientists have been trying to emulate nature’s design.
Printing With Concrete: How I Spent My Summer Vacation
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Here, the printer is printing a carbon fiber-infused plastic mesh on a layer of cement paste. The mesh is laying down on the cement well and is not sticking to the nozzle, which is rare.
Since commercially available 3D printers came out a few years ago, their capabilities have radically expanded. At first, they could only print little things out of plastic, but now people have begun to print working cars and even bridges.
Lean Improvements for Patient Safety
Do all employees in healthcare understand how their jobs link to patients in some way? If they do, then they are more likely to know the importance of service excellence.